Ecclesiastes 3:2

Modern English Version

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot what is planted;

Cross References

Genesis 17:21

But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

Genesis 47:29

When the time drew near when Israel would die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found grace in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh and deal kindly and truly with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,

1 Kings 13:2

He cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a child named Josiah will be born in the house of David, and he will sacrifice upon you the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and these men’s bones shall be burned upon you.’ ”

2 Kings 4:16

He said, “At this season, when it is time, you will embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, man of God, do not lie to your servant.”

Job 14:14

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my service I will wait, until my relief comes.

Job 14:5

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with You; You have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

Job 7:1

“Is there not a time of hard service for a man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired worker?

Psalm 113:9

He gives the barren woman a home, to be a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 52:5

But God will break you down forever; He will snatch you away and pluck you from your home, and uproot you from the land of the living.    Selah

Proverbs 24:27

Set in order your outside work, make it ready for yourself in the field, and afterwards build your house.

Isaiah 28:24

Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he continually turn and break the clods of his ground?

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah was mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.”

Isaiah 38:5

“Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.

Isaiah 54:1

Sing, O barren, you who did not bear a child. Break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child. For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 1:10

Behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.”

Jeremiah 45:4

Thus you shall say to him, “Thus says the Lord: Behold, what I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man shall send out His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who do evil,

Matthew 15:13

But He answered, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

Luke 1:13

But the angel said to him, “Do not fear, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Luke 1:20

And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things happen, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their season.”

Luke 1:36

And behold, your cousin Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age. And this is the sixth month with her who was declared barren.

John 16:21

When a woman is giving birth, she has pain, because her hour has come. But as soon as she delivers the child, she no longer remembers the anguish for joy that a child is born into the world.

John 7:30

So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

Acts 7:17

“When the time of the promise drew near, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt

Acts 7:20

“At that time Moses was born, and was fair in the sight of God. And he was reared for three months in his father’s house.

Galatians 4:4

But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth His Son, born from a woman, born under the law,

Deuteronomy 34:5

So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.

Hebrews 9:27

As it is appointed for men to die once, but after this comes the judgment,

1 Samuel 2:5

Those that were full have hired out themselves for bread, and those that were hungry ceased to hunger. Even the barren has borne seven, and she that has many children wastes away.